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Re-read my comment. He clearly said it and has acknowledged it. My overriding point was using a tweet as fact when there’s already a discrepancy between the tweet and the actual player’s account.
That said, this is not the hill I plan to die on because the coach was wrong any way you cut it.
More like "Bad things happen to bad people, but not me because I love Jesus."
The self-righteousness is revealing.
Dabo's schtick might play well sometimes, but man it is cringey in that interview and context. Even without factoring in the allegations
Fair point. Clearer on the re-read.
His true colors will be revealed the moment his players can profit off their likeness and he doesn’t quit.
Maybe he’s a nice guy, but something smells with him and it ain’t lavender
more like levander
If this happened its unacceptable period , but I need some more info on the specifics . I have a hard time believing that if a white coach called anyone or even uttered the N-word around 70+ African Americans the practice field just doesn't freeze or erupt immediately . Let alone that nothing happened at the moment , if the other players heard it I can't think there would not have been an immediate response of some kind , nor can I believe that Dabo could have heard that word uttered at a practice and not addressed it right then. If he did hear that and did nothing I don't see how he stays in place. Just one man's opinion..
Well timing is everything in life I wrote the entry above and failed to hit send...got on a business call and spent an hour doing that came back and saw I had not hit send...THEN I read the entire thread that now has a lot of context in it that I had not seen earlier...or I would not have written it..seems this incident was from a couple of years ago and has just come back to light? Sorry for my confusion...
I'm not going to join in the piling on since Dabo hasn't even addressed the matter yet and who knows the full story, but that is funny Yale.
It is ridiculous that there is a word that one race can use any way they want, and if a different race says the same word, even if condemning the use of the word, that person can have their life ruined. This coach will be roasted be the media, has apologized publicly, labled a racist, possibly suspended, or even fired for telling people not to use a word that is offensive. I am not sure that there is another word in the English language that is treated this way.
If the word is that bad people should be treated the same no matter who says it.
Gotta remember fear even if you hear it and you outnumber the opposition.
The coaches control these young mens futures for the most part. The coaches have the illusion of power over them and can make these guys lives alot harder than need be.
I’m guessing black people would take everyone being able to say it if it meant they stopped getting killed by cops, followed while shopping, being pulled over for DWB, etc
I think these paragraphs are enlightening to the events that transpired. Please note that picture is not related to this event.
While I agree that there is language that should never be used under any circumstances. I respectfully disagree that n-word is the only word that has this effect. The words sl-- and b---- come to mind when talking about women. If a coach or any other person of power were caught using those words towards women, then they would condemned in the media just the same.
I expect a down vote wave from this but it’s a factual response to your post. It doesn’t involve hate, “fake news”, cooked stats, or a screwed up perspective. This is a problem that needs to be looked at from both sides. A police officer is 18.5x more likely to be murdered by a black man than an cop to kill an unarmed black man (justified or not). Do you believe this affects a police offices view? Should they “be the bigger person and take it”? I’m not sure how that works? Is it that easy?
Not quuuuuuuuiiiiiitttttteeee what I was arguing there champ. Let’s just move on before this devolves any further.
Bottom line: my life hasn’t been impacted negatively in any way BC I’m not allowed to say n* and neither is yours
This news on dabo just reminds me of the recent story before Urban Meyer quit about him not doing anything about a coach of his beating up their wife.... Bad optics, but he'll probably get through it...who knows maybe he will all of a sudden have heart problems and need to retire for a couple years for the dust to settle then go back to coaching.....
and a certain C-word
I agree.